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Sidney
Bowser |
West Bromwich Albion
FC
1 cap, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 1:
A 1
50% successful
1919
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Sidney Bowser |
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Born |
6 April 1891
at 29 Cross Street,
Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire [registered in
West Bromwich, June 1891]. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1891 census,
Sidney is about to become the
youngest of four children to George and Mary Jane (née Rush), living at 29 Cross Street in Handsworth. His father is a cabinet maker. |
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According to the 1901 census,
the middle child of seven children, still with their parents, still living
at 29 Cross Street. His father is a carpenter. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Sidney is a Pro Footballer, one of six children living with their parents
at 167 Watville Street in Handsworth. His father is a joiner.
He
only appears once on the Midlands Electoral Roll, in 1955. He and Gertrude
are living at 178 Green Lane in Small Heath. |
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Married |
to Gertrude
Manfield
[registered in Kings Norton, Warwickshire, September 1913]. |
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Died |
25 February 1961 in
Birmingham,
aged
69 years 325 days
[registered in Birmingham, March 1961]. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9½", 12st.
0lbs [1912]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his
career playing schoolboy football in Birmingham, and played with local
clubs such as Astbury Richmond FC, Willenhall FC, during which he had a
trial with Birmingham FC. But it was rivals West Bromwich Albion FC that
signed Bowser in July 1908. He made 123 league appearances,
scoring 44 goals, before he signed for top Irish side Belfast
Distillery FC in April 1913, but re-signed for West Brom in February 1914.
After another 218 league appearances, with twenty goals,
he joined Walsall FC in August 1924, in a move that cost the club a £1000
transfer fee. He retired a year later, after 27 league
appearances. |
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Club honours |
Football
League Division Two winners 1910-11; FA Cup
runners-up 1911-12; Football League Champions 1919-20; |
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Individual honours |
Irish
League (one appearance) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of seven who became the 383rd players
(386) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-half |
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Only match |
No. 120, 25 October
1919, Ireland 1 England 1,
a British Championship match at
Windsor
Park, Belfast, aged 28 years
202 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championships 1919-20; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Became a licensee in 1925,
working for many years in Dudley. Also later managed an off-livence in
Acocks Green. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.40/41. |
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